Review: Samples of Adagio's Darjeeling #2 and Currant

??? I am confused :-? What does this mean? Don't you usually add milk after serving?

No, because I don't add milk at all. But if I hadn't in this instance, it would have been dumped down the drain immediately. As it was, I wasn't able to drink even half the cup before letting the drain have the rest.

Thanks. If it "needs" milk, it's because it tastes bad and needs something.

I tried adding milk to a good tea I like once, just to see; but, I guess I don't get it. It didn't do anything for me.

Yes, I thought I could fix it. It might have worked if I usually add milk to my tea anyway, but milk-flavored tea/tea-flavored milk just isn't my thing.

Now that's not entirely true in my opinion...I put milk and sugar into my red teas (Assam, Java, Kenyan, Malaysian, Celon, Darjeelings sometimes...English Breakfast blends) on a regular and most enjoyable basis. It really depends on what each person's preferance is. Personally I don't put milk and sugar into teas that have a taste that I want to catch by itself. So I wouldn't add sugar or especially milk to a green for example, or an oolong (I tried and didn't care for the results). But I think sugar and milk enhances (not covers up) strong red teas.

Melinda

I should confess that I have yet to branch out from my green teas. I do plan to try some blacks, but I've only been drinking tea for about 3 months (not counting lipton iced teas / restaurant iced teas - which should not be counted).

I will remember your preference when I get in to other teas, and surely try it then.

It's funny - I actually started getting "serious" about tea because I can't drink coffee without milk, yet don't ever put milk in my tea, and needed to avoid milk products for a long time while recovering from pneumonia. (And I realized that it's relatively easy to make really amazingly delicious tea at home - more so than with coffee.)

As I said in another post, with some teas a small bit of sugar seems to make the flavors, I dunno, livelier, I guess for me. But milk, nope - not for me.

Resa

I don't like sugar in my limited repertoire. Honey, yes, sometimes, but not sugar.

although i may agree with your review of adagio's teas i think it is about time you end your diatribe- we get the idea that teas are lousy-

they do however ave some good items for sale, especially their glassware-

Why don't you review something? I'd like to hear more people's tea reviews.

I didn't view it as a diatribe... I enjoy reading others' reviews very much, positive or negative, as I've still not expanded my tea repertoire outside bagged tea and have a lot of learning to do. Thanks for sharing this.

I rather hope that Bluesea and others do more reviews. I very much like this idea of posting reviews - good or bad. I find them helpful. Though something may not be to one person's tastes it may be to another.

Your comment is highly inappropriate considering that I posted raves about two teas and that my opinion about the two teas in this particular thread is not that they're lousy, but that I won't reorder simply because they don't do anything for me.

But, you do have the freedom to post as you will just as I have the freedom to ignore what you post.

Well, I found this review quite helpful. In general, would you recommend Upton Teas? I am interested in trying several, and would love a general impression.

Thanks!

Thanks!

Yes, I get most of my teas from Upton and make occasional forays to other vendors for what I can't get there and/or if I want to try something different. Honestly, if I hadn't been purchasing the IngenuiTea or Mikado teapots from Adagio, I wouldn't have been motivated to get a bunch of samples, but I'm glad I did.

I always recommend their Zao Bei Jian Chinese Black tea (from Szechuan Province) and find it to be quite popular among my friends. It is fairly cheap too, and is a great flavorful black tea for those who don't use milk.

Rick.

The ZK55? It sells for $10.40 per 125g packet, not "fairly cheap" considering that the lowest price for a China black is $3.20/125g. Even the sample costs $2 while samples for the inexpensive teas are $1.

Maybe I misunderstood and you mean another that I've overlooked?

RC> I always recommend their Zao Bei Jian Chinese Black tea (from Szechuan RC> Province) and find it to be quite popular among my friends. It is fairly RC> cheap too, and is a great flavorful black tea for those who don't use RC> milk.

BS> The ZK55? It sells for $10.40 per 125g packet, not "fairly cheap" BS> considering that the lowest price for a China black is $3.20/125g. Even the BS> sample costs $2 while samples for the inexpensive teas are $1. BS> Maybe I misunderstood and you mean another that I've overlooked?

Nope, that's it. I don't remember the price being that high, nor the rhetoric ("One of the finest black teas available today"). But it is less than their top Keemuns and, judging from years when I ordered both, a better deal.

Rick.

Thanks. I'll put it on my list of Samples To Get.